Official IFTTT App Comes to Android with New Recipes Baked in

Online automation service IFTTT is the best friend of the productivity obsessed, and today it's getting a little bit more useful for Android users. The official IFTTT app has been launched on Android, making it easier to concoct new recipes and tie events on your device into various web services.

Online automation service IFTTT is the best friend of the productivity obsessed, and today it's getting a little bit more useful for Android users. The official IFTTT app has been launched on Android, making it easier to concoct new recipes and tie events on your device into various web services.

If you've never used IFTTT it might be tough to get your head around the usefulness of such a product. It's all governed by one central axiom—if this, then that (IFTTT). So, for example: if a certain RSS feed is updated, send me an email alert. This is called a recipe in IFTTT parlance, and now it's easier for Android users to manage their recipes from a device. Since IFTTT lives in the cloud, it doesn't require an app, but the mobile component comes with some useful extras.

Installing the Android app gives you access to six new IFTTT channels including backgrounds, location, notifications, phone calls, photos, and SMS. So you could put together a IFTTT recipe that sends a text message each time you arrive at a certain location. The app could also be used to send an email to your significant other any time you miss a call from them.

The main interface is a timeline of all the things that have been triggered by IFTTT on your account. Your active recipes are in a slide out panel on the right, which isn't the most intuitive place for them to be. You can easily add new recipes and manage the ones you already have. You can fiddle with any recipe in the app, not just the ones with phone-specific functionality. It also suggests recipes made by others.

If you've never tried IFTTT, this is a great opportunity to see what it can do for you.

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